Quotes About Reading book
Our goal is to help you spend less time looking for books so you can spend more time reading! That's why we've compiled a list of some of the best quotes about reading. Read on to see the many insightful, interesting, and motivating things authors, poets, scientists, artists, visionaries, and even comedians have to say about reading.
Let us know in the comments below which one is your favorite, and which quotes you would add to the list!
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” - George R.R. Martin
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” - Harper Lee
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” - Lemony Snicket
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” - C.S. Lewis
“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” - Jim Rohn
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Marx
“‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.” - Mark Twain
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” - Ray Bradbury
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” - Roald Dahl
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” - Fran Lebowitz
“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” - Lena Dunham
“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” - Jhumpa Lahiri
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” - Descarte
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” - Mortimer J. Adle
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” - Diane Duane
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” - Dr. Seuss
“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” - Malorie Blackman
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” - Stephen King
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” - Orhan Pamuk
“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” - Logan Pearsall Smith
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” - Margaret Fuller
“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” - Saul Bellow
“A good book is an event in my life.” - Stendhal
“Reading brings us unknown friends” - Honoré de Balzac
“The world was hers for the reading.” - Betty Smith
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.” - Benjamin Franklin
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” - Louis L’Amour
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” - Fernando Pessoa
“No. I can survive well enough on my own—if given the proper reading material.” - Sarah J. Maas
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.” - Walt Disney
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” - Jules Verne
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” - Cicero
“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” - Malcolm X
“It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.” - Maureen Corrigan
“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” - Arnold Lobel
“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat.” - E. Nesbit
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” - Carl Sagan
“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” - Roald Dahl
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” - Ezra Pound
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” - P.J. O’Rourke
“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” - Jane Smiley
“Beware of the person of one book.” - Thomas Aquinas
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” - Abraham Lincoln
“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.” - C.S. Lewis
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” - Paul Sweeney
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